Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Four drawings - Okada suit of playing cards
Located in Burlingame, CA
Four (4) original individual drawings depicting the complete suit of playing cards. (Diamond): Infanta Vida y Muerte, (Heart): Infanta Viento Frio, (Club): Infanta Conocimiento and (...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Graphite
Untitled
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and drew from life models throu...
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1960s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Thai Beauty - Seated Female Nude
By Theo Meier
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Sanguine on paper.
Signed and dated upper left.
Provenance: Acquired directly from the artist at his home in Chiang Mai, Thailand in 1969.
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Ballet Espagnol, Pilar Lopez
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ballet Espagnol Pilar Lopez" c.1955 referring to the famous Spanish Flamenco dancer, Pilar Lopez, 1912-2008 is a pastel and crayon on paper by noted French artis...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Coachman - 18th Century British Figure watercolour drawing by Paul Sandby
By Paul Sandby
Located in London, GB
PAUL SANDBY
(1731-1809)
Study of a Coachman
Pencil and brown wash, shaped
Framed
16.5 by 9 cm., 6 ½ by 3 ½ in.
(frame size 32 by 22.5 cm., 12 ½ by 9 in.)
Provenance:
Iolo Williams;
Private collection.
Exhibited:
Sudbury, Gainsborough House, 1979.
Sandby was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1745. He and his brother Thomas first worked in the military drawing department at the Tower of London, later working on a military survey of new roads and bridges in the Highlands. On leaving this post in 1751 he spent some time living with his brother who had been appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. There he assisted his brother, and made a series of drawings of the castle, town and neighbourhood. In 1760 he settled in London where he contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists where he regularly exhibited until the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, becoming one of its founder members. In same year he was appointed chief drawing...
Category
Late 18th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Performance II realistic charcoal & ink monotone drawing, woman in striped dress
Located in Dallas, TX
"Performance I & II" are thoughtful and dynamic charcoal drawings on paper by Patsy McArthur. They are monotone, black and white, and show a woman wearing a fashionable striped skirt...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Archival Paper
"Great Pine", Tree Inhabited by Human in Nature, Drawing and Pigments on Paper
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This drawing by Frank Girard is created with pigments, Chinese ink, watercolors, acrylic, and colored pencils on 300g/m2 neutral white paper. It is not fr...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pigment, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Church Interior
By Ray Quigley
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern illustration by American artist Ray Quigley depicting two men inside of a church.
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Ink
1920's Illustration of a Country Girl
Located in Soquel, CA
Finely detailed figurative illustration of a young woman leaning against a fence. The woman is wearing a plaid dress and bonnet with a black ribbon. Some of the landscape has been il...
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1920s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Paper, Watercolor
Spring - Chalk design drawing for a Minton plaque by Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER
(1846-1929)
Spring
Inscribed with title beneath the mount
Chalk, circular
Framed
Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in.
(frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.)
Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum.
In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
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1870s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
Performance I, realistic charcoal & ink monotone drawing, woman in striped dress
Located in Dallas, TX
"Performance I & II" are thoughtful and dynamic charcoal drawings on paper by Patsy McArthur. They are monotone, black and white, and show a woman wearing a fashionable striped skirt...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Ink, Archival Paper
Nude - XXI century, Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing
PROVENANCE
Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery.
The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist.
The Gallery o...
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Early 2000s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pastel, Pencil, Cardboard
Summer - Chalk Drawing Design for Minton charger by Herbert Wilson Foster
Located in London, GB
HERBERT WILSON FOSTER
(1846-1929)
Summer
Inscribed with title beneath the mount
Chalk, circular
Framed
Diameter 42 cm., 16 ½ in.
(frame size 61 by 58 cm., 24 by 22 ¾ in.)
Herbert Wilson Foster was born in Endon, Staffordshire. He attended Hanley School of Art before continuing his studies in London, Belgium and France. His paintings of rural and domestic subjects were exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1873 and 1899. In 1893 he accepted a teaching position at the Nottingham School of Art, where his pupils included Laura Knight and Harold Knight. Works by him are in the collections of the Minton archives; the Wisbech & Fenland Museum; Leicester Art Gallery; Rushcliffe Council and Nottingham Castle Museum.
In addition to his work as a painter he worked as a porcelain painter, working at one point on the tile panels in the Victoria & Albert Museum. He is known to have worked at Mintons from 1872 where he specialized in portraits of contemporary personalities, including members of the Royal Family. This head of a girl was probably intended for a painted ceramic wall charger...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Pencil
Trompe l'oeil [Punch and Judy].
Located in New York, NY
Trompe l'oeil. [Punch and Judy].
Watercolor and drawing, undated, circa 1830. Paper size 10.25 x 14" (26.1 x 35.6 cm). On "J. Whatman" watermarked paper. Unidentified artist.
A 19th-century visual montage of Cruikshank's "Punch & Judy." The images are taken from the book "The Tragical Comedy, or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy." As told to John Payne Collier by Giovanni in 1827, illustrated by George Cruikshank and published by S. Prowlett, London 1828. The central circle illustrates a drawing showing two allegorical female figures with two putti. The text under this image: “E Musao Hugonis Howard Armig, from Guercino.” On top of that illustration is a handsome painting of a flintlock pistol. Trompe l’oeil is an art of illustration – the name translates to ‘Trick of the Eye.”
The puppet show of Pulcinella or Punch and Judy has a long and fascinating history. “A puppet play that would have featured a version of Punch was first recorded in England in May 1662 by the diarist Samuel Pepys. He noted seeing it in Covent Garden, London, performed by the Italian puppet showman Pietro Gimonde from Bologna, otherwise known as Signor Bologna.
The earliest script of a Punch and Judy show...
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1830s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
![Trompe l'oeil [Punch and Judy].](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3312/1620315874402/Trompe_L_Oeil_Punch_87325_master.jpg?width=240 "Trompe l'oeil [Punch and Judy].")
Puddle
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Gladys Emerson Cook (American, 1899-1976)
Title: Puddle
Year: Circa 1940
Medium: Pastel
Paper: Velvet paper
Size image: 13.5 x 9 inches
Size paper: 20 x 14.75 inches
Signature: Signed lower left
Condition: Very good, light marks on the margin due to previous framing
About the artist.
Gladys Emerson Cook is best known for her drawings of dogs...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Infanta La Danza de la Muerte no. 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Infanta La Danza de la Muerte no. 1' features the face of a young woman with flora motif (top) and series of birds and flora motif (bottom) representing lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil, Paper, Graphite
Dog
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Gladys Emerson Cook (American, 1899-1976)
Title: Dog
Year: Circa 1940
Medium: Pastel
Paper: Velvet paper
Image size: 15.25 x 15 inches
Paper size: 19.5 x 18.75 inches
Signature: Signed lower right by the artist
Condition: Very good, light marks on the margin due to previous framing
About the artist.
Gladys Emerson Cook is best known for her drawings of dogs...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923) A peasant girl with her flock of Turkeys, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Fraipont (1849-1923)
A Peasant girl with her flock of Turkeys,
Ink and heightenings of blue watercolor on paper
23 x 15 cm
Signed on the lower left and titled on lower righ...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
India Ink, Watercolor
"Two Dogs, One Cat Walking" Original ink drawing
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Margaret. Sweet Johnson (American, 1893-1964)
Title: "Two Dogs, One Cat Walking"
Year : Circa 1930
Medium: original ink drawing
Paper: Stock
image size: 9.25 x 7 inc...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
London Stock Exchange Waiter - 1960s British drawing by Francis Watt
By Frances Watt
Located in London, GB
FRANCES WATT
(1923-2009)
London Stock Exchange Waiter
Pen and ink and watercolour wash, unframed, in mount only
17 by 13 cm., 6 ½ by 5 in.
Edith Frances Watt was born in Falkirk in 1923. In 1926 the family moved to Switzerland when her father, the Rev Thomas Meikle Watt, was appointed permanent chaplain to the Church of Scotland in Geneva. Her father died in 1938 and the family returned to Scotland where Frances continued her schooling at Aberdeen High School for Girls. Her mother moved the family to London in about 1940 and they settled in Southwood Lawn Road, Highgate. Frances attended the Hornsey School of Art were she gained a National Diploma in Design before going on to study at the Byam Shaw School in London, where she later taught. In Highgate she was a member of the Highgate Artists Group, which included Sir Kyffin Williams among its exhibiting members, and she was also an active member of the Highgate Choral Society, designing many programmes and posters for its productions in the 1950s.
In the early 1960s she was commissioned by the Council of the Stock Exchange to record the daily life in the Square Mile. Over the next 20 years she was brilliantly placed to observe the enormous changes taking place in the great institutions of the Stock Exchange and Lloyd’s of London...
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1960s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Jules Monge (1855-1934) French soldiers, six watercolors
By Jules Monge
Located in Paris, FR
Jules Monge (1855-1934)
French soldiers, six different watercolors in a same mount
Each one signed (4 on lower right, 2 on lower left)
Each one 9.5 x 14...
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Early 1900s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Harry Morley - The Romany Camp - 20th Century British watercolour
By Harry Morley
Located in London, GB
HARRY MORLEY, ARA, RWS
(1881-1943)
The Romany Camp
Signed and dated 1927
Watercolour and bodycolour, framed
36.5 by 52cm., 14 ¼ by 20 ½ in.
(frame size 60.5 by 75 cm., 23 ¾ by 29...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Scientific Accuracy - British 19th Century ink illustration by George du Maurier
Located in London, GB
GEORGE DU MAURIER, ARWS
(1834-1896)
Scientific Accuracy
Ada: “What horrid things black-beetles are, Miss Grimm!
The kitchen is full of t...
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Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Untitled #177
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Dated in pencil, l.r.
Numbered 177 in pencil, u.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Pencil drawing of an Italian Girl by British Sculptor & Artist James H Thomas
Located in London, GB
JAMES HAVARD THOMAS
(1854-1921)
Study of a Girl, Taormina
Inscribed and dated on the reverse: Study of a Girl/by J. Havard Thomas/Taormina 1910
Pencil, unframed
9 ¾ by 6 ¾ in., 25...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Late 19th Century Detroit United States Mail Carrier Hand Painted Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful late 19th Century Hand painted photograph portrait of a Detroit, Michigan United States Mail Carrier "92 Detroit" hand painted using ...
Category
1890s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Photographic Paper, Oil Pastel
Georges Scott (1873-1943) Portrait of Jules Lagorio 1893, signed drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Scott (1873-1943)
Portrait of Jules Lagorio 1893,
signed, dated and annotated on the right : "A monsieur Jules Lagorio, Souvenir de notre excursion à l'Estaque 12 mai 1893"
Pencil on paper
24 x 22 cm
In fair condition : an horizontal crease in the middle of the shhet, stains ans other creases, trace of the mount (see photographs please)
In its original vintage framing : 33 x 30 cm
If not in perfect condition, this intimate portrait by the young artist is really intersting and charming.
The mention of it as a souvenir of an excursion to l'Estaque is interesting too. L'Estaque, near Marseille was a famous place for painters of the time such as Cezanne, Braque and Renoir who painted there the sea and shores. The young Georges Scott wanted to keep the souvenir of the excursion with his friend, but we have to think of the place by the gaze of the model contemplating it.
Georges Scott, or Scott de Plagnolle (his full name wasGeorges Bertin Scott de Plagnolle ), was born on June 10 1873 in Paris, he was a painter and illustrator.
He studied at the Alsatian School in Paris, where he drew a lot: “I have always drawn […]. My father was a painter and illustrator. I was born in a workshop ”. Fatherless in 1884, he studied at the Beaux-Arts, then was one of the pupils of Édouard Detaille, he was a member of French artists outside the competition in 1897.
Painter and illustrator, he worked for various periodicals, including Cocorico and L'Illustration where his first drawing was published on March 19, 1892 (“La catastrophe d'Anderlues”).
In 1911, the Minister of War Adolphe Messimy asked Scott and Detaille for studies to renovate the uniforms of the French Army: if their projects were not adopted, some were published in newspapers such as L'Illustration in March 1912 he covered as a war correspondent for the newspaper the First Balkan War, with the Bulgarian Army. He returned to Thrace inJuly 1913 for the Second Balkan War, but with the Greek Army, meeting King Constantine. In September 1913, on the occasion of the King of Greece...
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1890s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Reginald Hallward, Sketch for window at St Etheldreda's, Fulham
Located in London, GB
To see our other Architectural Drawings, Stained Glass designs and 20th Century British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below ...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
A Young Lady and Two Beaux - 18th Century British Wash Drawing by Paul Sandby
By Paul Sandby
Located in London, GB
PAUL SANDBY
(1731-1809)
A Young Lady with Two Beaux
Pencil and brown wash
Framed
11 by 13.5 cm., 4 ¼ by 5 ¼ in.
(frame size 27.5 by 30 cm., 10 ¾ by 11 ¾ in.)
Provenance:
R F Pearce;
Agnew, London;
Private collection.
Sandby was born in Nottingham and moved to London in 1745. He and his brother Thomas first worked in the military drawing department at the Tower of London, later working on a military survey of new roads and bridges in the Highlands. On leaving this post in 1751 he spent some time living with his brother who had been appointed Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park. There he assisted his brother, and made a series of drawings of the castle, town and neighbourhood. In 1760 he settled in London where he contributed to the first exhibition of the Society of Artists where he regularly exhibited until the foundation of the Royal Academy in 1768, becoming one of its founder members. In same year he was appointed chief drawing...
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Late 18th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"The Leaves of my Books ", Humans, Nature, Pigment Chinese Ink Acrylic Drawing
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Named "The Leaves of my Books", this drawing was made by masterful artist Frank Girard with pigment, Chinese ink, and acrylic on 300g/m2 neutral white pap...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pigment
Volvo 164 - XXI Century, Contemporary Watercolor & Ink Painting, Vintage Car
Located in Warsaw, PL
Mariusz Szalajdewicz (b. 1974)
Studied at the Faculty of Architecture at Warsaw University of Technology, where he mastered the drawing skill. Arc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
[Portrait of a Man]
By Ricardo Cinalli
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated top right: "Cinalli / MCMXCVII".
Ricardo Cinalli was born in Froylan Palacios in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He studied Psychology at the University of Rosario, and previously studied Painting at the Academia Fornells and Piano at the Conservatorio Chopin.
He moved to London in 1973 to study Painting at the Harrow School of Art and later on at Hornsey School of Art. In 1980 he started to exhibit his works in various galleries and museums in Europe, North and South America and Australia. Amongst his public commissions are frescoes in the Londersborough Room in Alexandra Palace, Vintners Place in London, and the Argentinian Embassy among others.
He has created the set designs for Les Parents Terribles by Jean Cocteau for the National Theatre, London (1996), Daphnis and Chloe by Maurice Ravel at the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro (1998) and Le Nozze di Figaro at the Teatro Colon...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
![[Portrait of a Man]](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/a_3973/a_90396021635357280158/17_13_10_master.jpg?width=240 "ricardo san juan ww2 neck")
"Wind in the Grass" Inhabited by Human, Chinese Ink and Wash Drawing on Paper
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This drawing by Frank Girard is created with Gouache, Chinese ink and wash drawing on 180g/m2 neutral white paper. It is not framed.
Through drawings, th...
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2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Wax Crayon, Rag Paper, Charcoal
Sleeping Nude Figurative
Located in Soquel, CA
Drawing of a sleeping nude woman by S. LeDrew (20th Century). Signed "S. LeDREW" in the lower right corner. Presented in a double mat of dark red and whi...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté
"The Gate", to Interior Castle Pigment & Chinese Ink Large Landscape Drawing
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Named "The Gate", this drawing by the masterful artist Frank Girard is created with Chinese ink, pigments, and watercolors on Arches paper. When creating large drawings, the artist u...
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2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lacquer, Paper, Ink, Pigment
A Summer Day, Stanford
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "A Summer Day, Stanford" 2003 Is a watercolor on paper by Filipino artist Ephraim Samson, b.1947. It is signed and dated at the lower right...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
De Slager, The Butcher
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century study drawing on paper by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. A sketch for the painting 'De Slager' from 1956 (SK167 Monografie en Oeurvrecatalogus)...
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1950s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
South San Francisco
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "South San Francisco" 2003 Is a watercolor on paper by Filipino artist Ephraim Samson, b.1947. It is signed and dated at the lower right co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
1937 Academic Female Nude Charcoal Drawing "Head in Hand" UC Berkeley
By John Ayres
Located in Arp, TX
John Ayres
Head in Hand
May 1, 1937
Charcoal on Paper
25"x19", unframed $1250
Signed and dated in charcoal top right
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect fr...
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1930s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper, India Ink
Showgirl (Chorus Girl drawing)
By Elmer Pirson
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elmer Pirson (1988-1935). Color pencil and paint on paper. Sheet measures 10.5 x 14 inches. Unframed and unmounted. Estate stamp on verso. Excellent condition.
An American Illustrator and painter, Elmer William Pirson was born in 1888 in New York.
Artistically, he is known to have studied under George Bridgman and James Earle Fraser...
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Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Color Pencil
Going to Mass, Spain - 20th Century British drawing by Robert Sargent Austin
Located in London, GB
ROBERT SARGENT AUSTIN, RA, PRWS, RE
(1895-1973)
Going to Mass, Spain
Black, brown and white chalks on grey paper
Framed
49 by 38 cm., 19 ¼ by 15 in.
(frame size 73 by 60.5 cm., 2...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk
Tresses
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tresses" c.1990 is a watercolor on Wove paper by Crow Indian artist Penni Anne Cross A.K.A. (Alawa-Sta-We- Ches) 1939-2016. It i...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cupid Sleeping - 18th Century British watercolour by Richard Westall RA
Located in London, GB
RICHARD WESTALL, RA
(1765-1836)
Cupid Sleeping; from a poem of Mrs Robinson
- The Duchess of Devonshire Discovers the Sleeping Cupid
Watercolour on paper, oval
36 by 44.5 cm., 14 ¼ by 18 in.
(frame size 55 by 66 cm., 21 ¾ by 26 in.)
Exhibited:
London, Royal Academy, 1792, no.448.
Richard Westall was bon in Reepham, near Norwich. Initially apprenticed to a London silver engraving he began studying at the Royal Academy Schools from 1785 and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1784 and 1836. Westall became an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1792 and a full member in 1794.
Westall painted in both oil and watercolour, his works being romantic and neoclassical in style. He contributing to both Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and Fuseli’s Milton Gallery and was also a prolific book illustrator of both fiction and poetry including works by Sir Walter Scott and Byron, whose portrait he also painted. For a time he was also art master to the young Princess Victoria.
This is probably Westall’s 1792 Royal Academy exhibit (no.448). The subject was inspired by the poem Cupid Sleeping by the poetess-actress Mary Darby Robinson, which had been published in the previous year. The poem was dedicated to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and the picture show the Duchess discovering the sleeping cupid who she then relieves of his bow and arrows. Mrs Robinson was not only the Duchess’s protégée but also the first public mistress of the Prince of Wales. William Nutter’s engraving of Westall’s picture was also dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire.
Close in a woodbine's tangled shade,
The blooming god asleep was laid;
His brows with mossy roses crown'd;
His golden darts lay scatter'd round;
To shade his auburn, curled head,
A purple canopy was spread,
Which gently with the breezes play'd,
And shed around a soften'd shade.
Upon his downy smiling cheek,
Adorned with many a "dimple sleek,"
Beam'd glowing health and tender blisses,
His coral lip...
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1790s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Man Undressing)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Signed, c.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now live...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite, Paper
The Gown - 1930s British theatrical costume design by John Dronsfield
Located in London, GB
JOHN DRONSFIELD
(1900-1951)
Yellow and Green Gown
Watercolour and chalk
Unframed
38 by 27.5 cm., 15 by 11 in.
(mount size 59 by 47 cm., 23 ¼ b...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Toy Boat - Anglo Dutch early 20th century Watercolour by Nico Jungman
By Nico Jungman
Located in London, GB
NICO JUNGMAN
(1872-1935)
The Toy Boat
Signed l.r.; Nico W Jungman
Watercolour and bodycolour over traces of pencil
Framed
44 by 32 cm., 17 ¼ by 12 ½ in...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Oxford Cityscape #2
By Ken Messer
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork " Oxford Cityscape #2" 1972 is a watercolor by noted architectural British artist, Ken Messer 1931-2017. It is signed and dated at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is 10.5 x 13.65 inches, framed size is 15.85 x 19 inches. It is custom framed in his original wooden gold and green frame. Artwork and frame are in very good condition.
About the artist.
After attending City of Oxford High School for Boys, where he excelled at rugby and cricket, he started work as an accountant in the city.
He then moved on to become a steward for the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). In the 1960’s Mr Messer was involved in a car accident which would end his sporting career and change his working life.
When he left his job with BOAC he became a graphic designer at Pergamon Press, owned by Robert Maxwell, which allowed him time to pursue his real passion which was painting watercolours.
He rose through the ranks at Pergamon to become studio manager and when he could progress no further he decided to become a full time artist, a role from which he never retired.
He quickly became well-known for his paintings of Oxford...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and drew from life models throughout his c...
Category
1970s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Cyrus Johnson, Clare College Cambridge Gates Two Dons Engaged in Conversation
Located in London, GB
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Cyrus Johnson (1848-1925)
Two Dons Engaged in Conversation by Clare College...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Mindful
By Ali Cavanaugh
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Watercolor on panel is framed. art is 5 x 5, outside of frame is 12.5 x 12.5
Ali Cavanaugh (American, b. 1973) is an internationally represented fine artist. She studied painting at Kendall College of Art and Design and the New York Studio Residency Program in New York City, earning a BFA from Kendall College of Art and Design in 1995. At the age of 22, she co-founded an atelier -The New School Academy of Fine Art- in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2000. It was during her seven years in Santa Fe that she developed her modern fresco process on kaolin clay. Her paintings have been the subject of numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions. Cavanaugh's paintings have been featured on book covers, countless internet features such as the Huffington Post, Fine Art Connoisseur, Hi-Fructose and in numerous print publications including The New York Times Magazine, American Art Collector, American Artist Watercolor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Early 19th Century French Salon Portrait Drawings, a Pair
Located in Rochester, NY
Pair of antique classical French salon drawings. Charcoal on paper. Illegibly signed. In giltwood frames, early 19th century.
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Category
Early 19th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal
Opera Costume Design for The Barber of Seville by Oliver Messel
Located in London, GB
OLIVER MESSEL
(1904-1978)
Costume Design for Rosina in the Barber of Seville
Signed and indistinctly inscribed
Watercolour and bodycolour, framed
...
Category
1950s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
"My House by the River", Humans in Nature Pigment Chinese Ink Landscape Drawing
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Named "My House by the River", this drawing by the masterful artist Frank Girard was created with Chinese ink, pigments, and watercolors on Arches p...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Lacquer, Paper, Ink, Pigment
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Saint Moreil - Original Pencil Drawing by A. R. Brudieux - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Saint Moreil is a original pencil drawing on paper, realized around 1960s by the French artist André Roland Brudieux (1921-1999).
Monogrammed in pencil "AB“ on the lower margin at t...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Study for femme Nue, Liggend Naakt
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century life drawing study on paper by the Dutch artist Wim Oepts. Possibly an atelier sketch for the painting, 'Liggend Naakt' from 1937 (SK054 Mon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
The Long Walk Home. Orientalist Watercolour.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century orientalist watercolour on paper by Aiveill, signed bottom right.
In art history, Orientalism is the imitation or depiction ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
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